First Step: Sewage Source

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First Step

Sewage Source:
Sewage comes from water in kitchens and bathrooms in peoples houses and
from commercial and industrial (companies and factories) use. Also, it comes
from rainy-weather in street.

How Does Sewage Reach Deer Islands Factory:


When you flush water in your bathroom or kitchen, sewage flows through
pipes because the gravity until it reaches local sewers departments.
Although, that they need to pump the sewage in some low-lying areas. The
sewer department extracts big object such as bricks, logs(wood) either by
using different sizes of pipes that will not allow big objects to pass or by
adding filters to big and small pipes. After The sewer department extract big
objects, they send the sewage into the headworks of Deer Island factory.

Pretreatment:
In this process they settle Mud and sand from sewage in a tank called a
grit chamber. Later, they take these materials to a landfill for
environmentally safe disposal.

Primary Treatment:
The sewage then flows to primary settling tanks where up to 60% of the solids in the waste stream settle out as a
mixture of sludge and water. This primary treatment removes very few toxic chemicals

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